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J. R. BROTT.

(No Model.)

CHAIR.

Patented June 19, 1888.

WITNESSES:

ATTURNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JOHN R. BROTT, OFLONG MEADOW, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM W.cooMEs, OF SAME PLACE.

CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,887, dated June 19,1888.

Application filed March 11, 1886. Serial No. 194,811. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN R. BROIT, a citizen of the United States,residing in .Long Meadow, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Chairs, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which-like letters of reference indicatinglike part-s Figure 1 is a top, and Fig. 2 a side view, of my device; andFig. 3 is a perspective view of a stool having my device appliedthereto.

Heretofore thelegs of chairs, stools, 850., have been connected andbraced by rounds or rods running from leg to leg. These rounds becomeloosened in the legs after a time, and unless the chair is constantlyrepaired it remains in a shaky condition, and will be destroyed muchsooner than if the parts were held rigidly together.

The object of my invention is to overcome all these objectionablefeatures in the manufacture of chairs, Stools, &c., and to provide as anew article of manufacture a frame or set of braces suitably united,which may be applied to chairs, stools, 850., and which will hold theparts firmly in position.

Reference being bad to the drawings, the letter 1) designates the rods,which serve the purpose of rounds or braces. These are arranged inrectangular relation, forming the sides of a square, and have theirendscast to hollow sleeves a, open at both ends, through which the legsof the chair are passed and secured, the rounds and the sleeves beingcast in one piece. Additional security may be given to the frame bycasting with it diagonally-a1",- ranged braces, substantially as shown,with their ends in the shell of the hollow sleeves.

Two or more sets of braces may be used upon each chair, if desired. Ifind, however, one set situate about midway from the seat to the floorwill in most cases accomplish the desired has heretofore been made forconnecting together the upper ends of the legs of a stool or chair,whichspider consists of a threaded hub or center piecehaving four armsradially projected therefrom and terminating in vertical sockets havingopen ends for the reception of l 55 the ends of the chair-legs, andsecured thereto by washers and screws passed vertically downward intothe legs- Having therefore described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a brace for chair-legs, cast in asingle piece, consisting of a rectangular frame of four rounds united atthe ends by hollow sleeves open at both ends to take and hold the legsof a chair below the seat/thereof, substantially as described.

2. The brace for chair-legs herein described, consisting of arectangular frame of four rounds united at the ends by hollow sleevesopen at both ends to take the legs of a chair below the seat thereof,and formed with diagonally-arranged braces having their ends inthesleeves, substantially as described.

JOHN R. BROTT.

Witnesses:

ALLEN WEBSTER, FRED BROWN.

